The immensely complex Homorphus Charm

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 94115

"davewitley" wrote:
> 
> Of course, if Voldemort turns out to have a tame werewolf that 
> he  can use to frame Lupin, then Homorphus may become 
> relevant.
> 
Pippin responded: 
> <snip> it's possible that homorphus only 
> restores the human shape, as the wolfsbane potion only allows 
> the werewolf to keep his human mind. 

Carol:
Good suggestion, Pippin. Also, assuming that the Homorphus Charm isn't
a figment of Lockhart's imagination, surely Dumbledore would know of
its existence and would have performed it on Remus at the first
opportunity if it were really a cure, making Snape's wolfbane potion
(and more important, Lupin's suffering) unnecessary.

As long as we're on the topic of werewolf!Lupin, I find it odd that
the WW regards werewolves as half-human. When JKR stated in the chat
that Lupin was a half-blood, she apparently meant one witch or wizard
parent and one Muggle parent (like Seamus) or Muggle-born parent (like
Harry), not one human and one nonhuman (or half-human) parent. Also
we're told that he was bitten as a child, not born to a werewolf parent. 

But his name seems to suggest otherwise--that his father (Romulus J.
Lupin, maybe?) was a werewolf. So maybe Remus's Muggle-born mother
married his pureblood, secretly werewolf father, and his father (in
his werewolf phase) bit Remus when he was a little boy. Then it would
all fit together, even, in a sense, the half-human (or part-human)
label. (Of course, there's always the question of how his werewolf
father got through school without a Whomping Willow and the Shrieking
Shack, but I don't want to get into that!).

Okay, I know it sounds like fanfic, which was not at all my intention.
All I'm wondering is whether anyone else thinks that the werewolf who
bit Remus Lupin *could* have been his own father, also named Lupin
("wolfish")?

Carol, who still wonders why Lupin had "Professor R. J. Lupin" on his
suitcase in peeling letters when the only wizarding school in Britain
is Hogwarts. Where else would he have been teaching? Beauxbatons and
Durmstrang would never have hired him.